Survivors
Your guide to 2021 (virtual) Yom HaShoah commemorations
Despite a year of isolation and pandemic restrictions, Jewish communities around the country are finding ways to come together for Yom HaShoah, the annual commemoration to honor the more than six million Jews murdered by Nazis and Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust.
Why not a Holocaust Survivors Day?
When more than 200 survivors gathered last year at the former Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation, it struck Jonathan Ornstein that there were three days each year to remember Nazi victims but no day to celebrate the lives of Holocaust survivors.
A rabbi moves Holocaust survivors to front of vaccination line
The COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Holocaust survivors in a local synagogue started out a bit ominously: A police cruiser was stationed outside and a bomb-sniffing German Shepherd was deployed inside, zealously looking for explosives.
Holocaust survivors are now receiving their first doses of the vaccine — and fame
Lily Ebert, at age 97, and Debra Winant at 101, have every intention of surviving the pandemic too.
Experts dismiss Israeli drive to vaccinate world’s Holocaust survivors as political stunt
Critics blast plan to vaccinate all Holocaust survivors
This customized van is helping UK Holocaust survivors record their stories during the pandemic
“I can’t tell you what it looks like on the film, but it’s an ingenious idea,” said Lili Pohlmann, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor.
My grandmother never talked about her experience in World War II. Until now.
She never talked about the hardest time of her life. But I didn’t want to lose this history.
Psychedelic journeys helped Holocaust survivor George Sarlo. Now he’s helping others on their own journeys.
Holocaust survivor George Sarlo helps others with psychedelics
Trump evangelical allies embroiled in lawsuit over Holocaust survivor charity project
Mike Evans is suing Pastor Jentezen Franklin in a dispute over money raised to build a food kitchen for Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem.
A wardrobe artist makes masks for quarantined Holocaust survivors
A wardrobe artist makes masks for quarantined Holocaust survivors